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Fields like this lie in Forks, a small Washington logging town outside of Olympic National Park that is the westernmost incorporated city in the contiguous U.S. People in Forks boast that they reside in the timber capital of the world and any visitor can get the message loud and clear without even talking to the locals...
Arriving in Lusaka today, a visitor might think Zambia is a country emerging from war. Stretches of road in the capital look as if they have been under mortar bombardment. Buildings are dilapidated, vehicles rattletrap. Thousands live in tin-shelter shantytowns. Unemployment and crime are running high. Zambia has become one of the poorest nations anywhere, with one of the world's highest per capita foreign debts -- nearly $1,000 for each of its 8 million people; average annual income per person is less than $290. As in many African countries, a small layer of extremely wealthy people flourishes above...
...politicians routinely vie with each other for the Li'l Abner prize for most humble, most miserable upbringing. The Democrats in Madison Square Garden were no exception. After four days of speeches a foreign visitor could be forgiven for thinking indoor plumbing was a Reagan-era innovation...
While trying to piece together exactly what happened to the bodies, Radzinsky detected some intriguing discrepancies. Then a mysterious visitor, whom he identifies only as an old man who worked in the state security organs, claimed that two victims had survived, one of them Alexei Nikolaevich, the Csarevich...
...Sagrada Familia is Gaudi's masterpiece. It is not. The Casa Mila and the crypt of the Colonia Guell, among others, are superior. But in any case, not all the best modernista building and decor are by Gaudi. Other and hardly lesser Catalan architects await discovery by the visitor. Two names in particular stand out: Lluis Domenech i Montaner (1850-1923) and Josep Puig i Cadafalch...